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and culminated in copenhagen. there is a very brief 12 hour head of state negotiations up the first negotiation the formal one failed. level talk about that more in a moment but i would give you some background to what is happening there. every discussion of international climate change negotiation over the past decade has taken place in the context of the kyoto protocol. and the assumptions created by the kyoto protocol that industrialized nations have the obligation to reduce pollution and decisions of how to proceed on pollution reduction would be taken in five-year increments called commitment point* this second point* is what was under discussion at copenhagen. and the international agreement would have an elaborate legal structure with which commitments would be carried out. certainly over the last two years there have been very strong assertions that that would be the frame for the discussion. remember coming out of bali two years ago? united states was shot down in developing countries continue to insist t
and culminated in copenhagen. there is a very brief 12 hour head of state negotiations up the first negotiation the formal one failed. level talk about that more in a moment but i would give you some background to what is happening there. every discussion of international climate change negotiation over the past decade has taken place in the context of the kyoto protocol. and the assumptions created by the kyoto protocol that industrialized nations have the obligation to reduce pollution and...
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hihis back in the news with copenhagen. that is al gore. he has the distinctive shape to his head that kind of goes one line like this and then the other line like this. that is where you start with outboard. -- that is where you start with al gore. he has the years. he has the use of spock from of a " star trek -- from "star trek." he hasn't elvis-like smell of that goes like this. -- he has an elvis-like mouth that goes like this. he lost the 2000 election because of florida. i'm telling you that is not it. he lost the election because he has the eyes of death. that is al gore for you. what you think? am i right? [laughter] am i right? [applause] right. so we will sign this one here. there you go for you. let's draw another character with a distinctive face. john kerry -- long faced by. his face starts to appear and it is a long face, long phase, long face. look at that, look at that. no. ok, this is better. it goes up like this and like this and his nose is like this and his hair is like this and there's hair and his use come here like t
hihis back in the news with copenhagen. that is al gore. he has the distinctive shape to his head that kind of goes one line like this and then the other line like this. that is where you start with outboard. -- that is where you start with al gore. he has the years. he has the use of spock from of a " star trek -- from "star trek." he hasn't elvis-like smell of that goes like this. -- he has an elvis-like mouth that goes like this. he lost the 2000 election because of florida....
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the deliverer of an outcome otherwise on achievable and this is the narrative we are getting out of copenhagen he walked into a meeting supposed to be a bilateral with china, the chinese were trying to elevate him and he broke in and sat next to llewelyn from brazil, changed the game and got the deal, the five power deal with ever and it's perfectly fits this narrative of obama savings the day of what would have been complete disaster and i don't want to get into great detail but i've noticed this in the cuba policy i tracked closely even up to two or three days before the summit of the americas jeffrey, ambassador, former ambassador to mexico was essentially delivering, excuse this, richard, the neoconservative line of latin america. there was no evidence they were willing to say to diprete position where obama is coming. when he got the portfolio 180-degree shift in the direction comes of this is interesting you set up one attention challenges you got to be losing terribly to get his attention but when you do get his attention there is a very need almost to actually fundamentally change the
the deliverer of an outcome otherwise on achievable and this is the narrative we are getting out of copenhagen he walked into a meeting supposed to be a bilateral with china, the chinese were trying to elevate him and he broke in and sat next to llewelyn from brazil, changed the game and got the deal, the five power deal with ever and it's perfectly fits this narrative of obama savings the day of what would have been complete disaster and i don't want to get into great detail but i've noticed...
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and it was a very telling incident did the president of the united states removes himself to copenhagen to bring home the chicago olympics. he removes himself to compensate for climate change. he removes himself to oslo to receive a prize. but he does not show up in berlin at the 20 it anniversary of an event of biblical proportions, one that i am sure most of this in the room would never have imagined we would ever see. that tells you how he sees the world and reinforces that quotation. i could use one of dozen, in which you can see his priorities. and to speak of the cold war as an arbitrary, and not to see how routed they were in the fundamental values of the united states and west, as cleavages and some obsolete conflict, it is simply staggering but it tells you a lot about his world view. i thought the berlin event was very telling, particularly as you say leaving -- leaving out the great leader's reagan, thatcher, but john paul, and others. gorbachev was a hapless caretaker. to his credit, he did not shoot people in the streets. and i give him credit, because you have to make a ch
and it was a very telling incident did the president of the united states removes himself to copenhagen to bring home the chicago olympics. he removes himself to compensate for climate change. he removes himself to oslo to receive a prize. but he does not show up in berlin at the 20 it anniversary of an event of biblical proportions, one that i am sure most of this in the room would never have imagined we would ever see. that tells you how he sees the world and reinforces that quotation. i...
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the g-20 agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at copenhagen. for the first time all major economies accepted their responsibility to take future action. the president acknowledged this is not enough and we'll continue our efforts to provide the leadership that is required in this important and challenging area. all of this is, of course, just the start. our challenge now is to sustain and build on the start that has been made this year. there are no shortages of challenges to test us, north korea, iran, arab-israeli peace, al qaeda and its affiliates in afghanistan and pakistan specifically, and around the world jeanly. so now let me turn very briefly to the afghan-pakistan strategy and exactly where we are today. in review of our efforts in afghanistan and pakistan this fall, the president asked some very difficult and tough questions, challenged assumptions and heard from every perspective and explored every option. most importantly, this was a review that never lost sight of those affected most by presidential decisions, and that's the men a
the g-20 agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at copenhagen. for the first time all major economies accepted their responsibility to take future action. the president acknowledged this is not enough and we'll continue our efforts to provide the leadership that is required in this important and challenging area. all of this is, of course, just the start. our challenge now is to sustain and build on the start that has been made this year. there are no shortages of challenges to test us,...
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given the disappointing finish to the copenhagen conference what action can my honorable friend tell us he will be taking in order to keep the momentum up on this absolutely vital task of climate change? >> mr. speaker, for the first time the world was able to agree that we should not have a climate change policy that did not address the problems of rising temperatures and the 2% limit was agreed by all countries. we also have agreement countries will notify what they will do by 2020 and they've got to do so by january 31st. we are obviously pressing countries to be in the position they can reduce the amount of gigatons in carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from the mid 50's in 2020 to the mid 40's and there has been a great transparency achieved with every country agreeing to report what they are doing that we have not yet got the international duty that we need and we haven't yet got the announcement from all countries they support the 50% reduction by 2015. that is what is still to be done and i agree we must not talk to all those countries reluctant to come to these talks with a
given the disappointing finish to the copenhagen conference what action can my honorable friend tell us he will be taking in order to keep the momentum up on this absolutely vital task of climate change? >> mr. speaker, for the first time the world was able to agree that we should not have a climate change policy that did not address the problems of rising temperatures and the 2% limit was agreed by all countries. we also have agreement countries will notify what they will do by 2020 and...